The directions of current municipal projects...are unwittingly viewing the wireless network as a means to escape local communities, and as a one-way street for advertisers to subsidize the network’s operating costs. Therefore, in order to guarantee that municipal wireless networks will enhance citizen’s roles as content providers, cities should:

• Require that wireless franchisees provide significant community access to wireless captive portal pages and splash pages. Ownership, control and access to this resource can be organized in any number of ways – having local students document and chronicle local events and other open content authoring models.

• Cities should demand access to any future advertising channel deployed on ad-supported municipal networks for public service announcement-type content.

I have no idea what he means by "a means to escape local communities" but the advertising bit seems straight forward and expected. It also strikes me as rather obvious that community access should be part of any telecommunications infrastructure discussion: this is, after all, a question of technologicalcitizenshipand we still need to address the politics and ethics of 'allowing' others to speak.